Saturday, January 30, 2010

Organizational Skills?

Now, I vowed to clean up my sewing room. It was one of my new year resolutions, right? Now, I ask you, why should a little job like that be so difficult? Could one reason be because I have a serious addiction to books and magazines?
Take the photo above for example. I took this today after sorting these quilting magazines into piles according to publication name. Now you might think this is a good start towards the aforementioned sewing room cleanup and reorganization but you would be wrong. These are the magazines that I bought last weekend! I came across a used book sale at my library and here were all these boxes of quilting magazines. Interesting... I thought I might as well find out how much they were and once the woman told me she would make me a deal and give me them ALL for $15.00 my fate was sealed. It took a very kind gentleman two trips to get them to my truck, using an industrial dolly each trip. Oh yes, and there is a big cardboard box of quilting books from the same buy that isn't even in the picture. To give you a bit of perspective, this dining room table is huge - seats eight adults very comfortably and can seat 10 without much trouble. Now quilting is just one of my interests, right? Up in the sewing room I have instructions and supplies for everything from soapmaking to moose hair tufting!
Oh dear, oh dear... I have to run now - I think I hear the film crew from "The Hoarders" at the door! lol

You certainly won't get any help from me 'cause all I want is to see the box of books. LOL No, really, I wish you good luck and would even help if I was close!! Why we overwhelm ourselves I don't know but I'm to the point it is seriously interfering with the creative process. BUT what a deal! It would have to be a stronger woman than me to pass it by. :)

When we moved to Alberta, I did a serious destashing and stuff reduction - we got the truck about half packed and realized it wasn't big enough so DS had to go rent a bigger truck. I'be been trying to reduce ever since we've been here (about 3 years)and I'm making very small headway. If you don't make your own soaps yet you're missing out. I've been making my own soaps and lotions for about 10 years and I love them.